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    The ebb and flow of creativity (and why a creative rut isn’t the worst thing to ever happen).

    February 26, 2024

    I am officially in a creative rut.  I legit haven’t made anything since I finished the Love Bunnies a few weeks ago. I’ve wanted to create things. I think about all of the fun new projects I want to start on a daily basis, only to feel tired and listless when I actually have the time to sit down and create.  Even the books I’ve been reading lately have been lackluster and blah. I’ve sent 3 — THREE! — different books to the DNF (did not finish) pile, which is highly unusual and truly disappointing.  Instead of creating, I have been spending hours upon hours…

  • From killer romances to billionaires next door, here are all the books I read in January

    February 10, 2024

    From killer romances to billionaires next door, I managed to read a grand total of 12 books in January. Some were good and some … weren’t. Read on to find out which books were my favorite and which books I didn’t quite love. Every year I set a goal for the number of books I want to read and then promptly forget about it halfway through the year. Last year, I didn’t even remember setting a goal to read 26 books. Thankfully, I discovered a love for listening to audiobooks while creating and ended up binge-listening to 38 books between…

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    My Favorite Books of 2023

    January 8, 2024

    I feel like I go in spurts with reading. Some months I want nothing to do with reading and will binge Netflix like there’s no tomorrow. And other months I’ll plow through 4-5 books a week. Lately, I’ve been in a binge reading (and listening) phase, as I love listening to books while I’m drawing or doing embroidery. I had made a goal to read 36 books last year and ended up hitting that number around November. So I upped it to 52 books, figuring I had nothing to lose, and was pleasantly surprised when I ended up reading (and…

  • TWELVE by TWENTY FOUR

    January 3, 2024

    With my kids getting older and my youngest getting more independent, I have more time in my days to devote to creative exploration. I’ve been throwing around ideas for what to do with all that newfound free time and wanted to do something special in 2024.  Problem is, I could never come up with ONE BIG THING that I wanted to focus my time on. Instead, I came up with a million and one little things — things that I have always wanted to explore, old things that I want to return to, and stockpiles of supplies and artwork that I…

  • The 100 Day Project Wrap-Up

    July 23, 2019

    Welp. It’s official. Another 100 Day Project is in the books. Out of all the different iterations of this project I’ve done, I’d say that this has been the most fun and most difficult. Fun, because I got to spend a whole lot of quality time with my daughter doing things we both loved doing. And difficult, because I am officially 2 weeks away from giving birth to my second child. To be fair, I knew going into it that this would be a challenge for me because I was pregnant and would be wrapping up the project about a…